![]() This leads to him accidentally shooting an infected man and then he runs off and leaves the man when he’s crying for help. This guy genuinely nearly accidentally shoots his friend and his friend brushes it off as if it was nothing, what? After doing this, he lights a camp fire and leaves it unattended to go off into the woods and pretend he’s in a video game or something. He brings an automatic weapon on the trip with him, how fun. Also, he happens to be obsessed with video games according to his friends. I will now give a couple of examples of the dumb things that happen in Cabin Fever (2016), it’s been a while since I’ve seen the original but this may be directed at that as well (Spoilers Ahead).įirstly, the character of Bert is portrayed as a sort of 5 th wheel type. It’s 2016 and I don’t think audiences are anywhere near as accepting as they were when these types of movies were in their infancy. Also, Cabin Fever (2002) got a pass for the ridiculous amount of stupid choices the characters make because it was 2002. The characters may do pretty much the exact same things they do in the original but they’ve been “modernized” it in the remake and it shows. ![]() You might think that for me to criticize this remake is for me to criticize the original as well which is only slightly true. That’s a quick description of the film for those that have not seen the original but as I said above it’s basically the same as the director (Travis Z) used the same script that Eli Roth did in 2002. Will they survive until the next day? What is causing the disease to spread in the first place? If things didn’t seem bad enough, they are repeatedly terrorized by a dog that has also contradicted the rage inducing disease. After one of them becomes infected, they are forced to quarantine her in an outdoor shed. The strange sheriff, who for whatever reason acts more like a stripper promises that she will send a tow truck in the morning. For some reason that means they must now stay in the cabin and rot. They accidentally kill the man and inadvertently damage their only vehicle. This happens after coming into contact with a man who had previously contracted the virus. They are exposed to a flesh eating virus from a hidden source. If you’ve seen the original then there really isn’t any purpose for this film to exist, it’s almost an exact shot for shot remake which as we all know is the worst type of remake there is.Ī group of college students head out to a secluded cabin in the woods for a weekend of partying. Its 2016 so that can mean only one thing for Cabin Fever, a pointless remake! Two years after its release we had movies like SAW and others which were making a killing at the box office. I don’t think it’s unfair to say that it had a hand in bringing the “splatter film” to mainstream audiences. Whether you’re a fan of that movie or not there is no denying that it had a couple of memorable moments. Possibly the day players essaying those stock grotesques, who retain the air of being hungry for work.It has been 14 years since the release of Eli Roth’s cult classic, Cabin Fever. Who benefits from the existence of this film? Certainly not the largely bland ensemble of post-adolescent actors cast as the leads, who here can scarcely be called characters. The homage to Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” in the opening is notable, too, for its irritation level. In addition to its plot-generated shocks, the movie packs in so many gratuitous “Boo!” moments that you can set your watch by them. This version also features a few more stock redneck grotesques than did the first one. He switches the gender of the ineffectual law enforcement officer and plants an equally ineffectual red-herring, in the form of an insinuating scar, on her person. Zariwny include gore effects 13 years more sophisticated than those in the original, and not much else. The ostensible improvements introduced by Mr. Roth’s original was a fast-paced, tidy and modestly inventive account of vacationing post-adolescents encountering a flesh-eating virus, and the gore and hysteria that subsequently ensue. Roth is an executive producer on this new and entirely useless version, which announces its newfangledness in part with an opening credit reading “A Film by Travis Z.” How gnarly. “ Cabin Fever” is a remake of a deft and funny horror movie directed by Eli Roth in 2002. That little bit of data, however, proves more and more an anomaly as the years go by. The 1941 film “The Maltese Falcon,” beloved by pop culture mavens the world over, was in fact the third celluloid adaptation of the Dashiell Hammett novel over the course of a mere 10 years. Remakes happen, and that’s not always a bad thing.
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